Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-17
THE TOrAL.ABsTIyENCE BOOM.
What the Temperance People are Saying
Ia n.s..- continned SUCCESS

| What the Temperance People are Saying
and Doing-Continued Success.
The Temperance meetings that were COM
menced in the Metropolitan Theater on
Saturday evening last continue to draw
crowded houses nightly, and the renowned
advocate of total abstinence, Richard L.
/ Booth, has created temperance boom
that cannot fail to work great good in
| this city. Aided by almost the entire
Clergy of Sacramento, and assisted by
grand chorus of 300 voices. the entertain
ments have become immensely popular.
| The lecturer has a style peculiarly his own,
and, while ne cannot be classed as great
orator, still he holds the attention Of the
! immense audience that assemblies nightly,
and those who have heard him once want
TO hear him again. His earnestness, plain
style of stating facts, humorous way OF
telling anecdotes, inte-spersed with nor
rible examples and pathetic appeals, in
terest his hearers from the opening to the
close.
The speaker was introduced by Rev. A.
c. Herrick. who congratulated Sacramento,
the Queen City of the West, on this tenn
perance boom, which he said means
@-AA<0N@'~
Of the Capital City, and the building 40 of
many happy home that is now rendered
desoiate by that friend of no man, strong
drink. He said there are 400 saloons in
this city. and, putting it at a very low
figure, they take in S. per day each $1,000
every day; $4,000 every week; $4,000
per month; $4,000 every year-just
think of it, More money than it takes to
run all our public schools, our churches,
our city and county government. Where
does that $3.50, 900 come from? Go ash the
ragged, bare-footed boy in the street. Go
ask the mother, surrounded with want and
misery. Go ask the widow and the Or
phan. Your answer will be found in the
orphan asylums, in the prison cells in our
hospitals and asylums for the insane.
The good work has commenced in earnest,
manhood begins to assert itself, and a
salooon-keeper to-day said that already his
receipts had begun 10 show remarkable
and unprecedented decrease. Applause
This is work in the interest of God and
humanity. and
THE ARMY OF BLUE RIBBONS
To be seen upon the streets of Sacramento
to-day, say TO those engaged in the liquor
traffic, by this token you shall be con-
quered. [Applause.]
The speaker of the evening, Mr.. Booth,
as previously announced, spoke upon
Z" The Comic and the Tragic Side Of a
Drunkard's LIFE No man, except one
who had experienced the depths of the sor-
rows and degradations that fall to the COM
mon lot Of a drunkard, could draw such
vivid and realistic pictures of the poor IN
fortunates who had been drawn down by
this fiend incarnate, until there was moth
ing left but miserable, despised, unloyed
ard unloving wreck of humanity. Help
less, ignoring home, parents and friends,
numbering wives, Draining children, suffer-
ing the tOrtures ofthe damned a suicide, his
last resting place the river, or the potters'
field. appealed to every man, woman and
child to sign the pledge, wear the badge of
honor, more honorable than any other re-
gala, which would bring respect, honor
and prosperity. To be
ABLE TO LOOK EVERY MAN IN THE FACE
And say, 81 do not drink, " is great thing,
but to write your indictment against the
liquor traffic and wear the blue buttonaire
in the sight of your companions is still
greater-it is upright, it is godly, it is
manly. If they laugh at you, let them
laugh. Theirs is a hollow laugh; they
would like to exchange places with you.
You can meet their smile with chuckIe
up your sleeve. for it is an old saving, and
in this case trueism, that ne laughs best
who laughs last.
AT the close of the lecture one of the
ladies in the choir sang Where is My
Wandering Boy Tonight" the entire audi
ence joining in the chorus. The subject of
the lecture tonight will be, mo Call for
Men Who Drink The result of the meet
ipgs so far is as follows: